Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska received from Frank Thomas, President of the Co-operative Beet Growers' Association of Scotts Bluff a telegram: "Feeling is running high here. There is danger of violence...
These mishaps have been occasioned by the flesh piercing items. Rahman Bey induces in himself a state of cataleptic anesthesia and jabs hatpins through his flesh and a slim dagger through the skin covering his Adam's apple. Some of these wounds bleed and some are dry, according to his will. None leave scars. These things are not miraculous, being duplicated in experiments on involuntary cataleptics...
...major findings of modern knowledge could be caught in a two-year curriculum if we continue to teach entirely in terms of the subjects and departments that are today the basis of instruction, unless each subject were to be taught by a polymath like Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Adam Smith, or Thomas Henry Buckle. It may be there-fore, that we shall find that the only way we can manage to induct students into a general understanding of their civilization will be to teach during these two "general" years in terms of situations rather than subjects...
Sakses Out. In 1842 Adam Gimbel started a store in Vincennes, Ind. In 1867 Andrew Saks opened one in Washington, D. C. Both grew vast and branched out. In 1923 Gimbel's descendants bought from Saks' relatives their Manhattan store (TIME, Dec. 14). So next April 30 those relatives, Isadore, Joseph I. and William A., will withdraw from their Manhattan activities...
...have never memorized anything, Adam Baxter's remarkable reciting may make you squirm with a guilty feeling of having missed much. We felt that way for a while, but then he fell back on a hymn we've sung almost every time we've been to church, and all was well...